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Tech is very powerful. The tech disruption has been happening for a while now. We can use that to our advantage and make education and learning better.

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Whilst preparing our students to develop resilience and adaptability, and be more open-minded for the global stage, we must ensure they are equipped with values such as compassion,  impartiality and empathy

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Whilst preparing our students to develop resilience and adaptability, and be more open-minded for the global stage, we must ensure they are equipped with values such as compassion,  impartiality and empathy

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In this digital era, we need to inculcate the values of adaptability in our students, willing to change and respond with fast in this ever fast changing world.

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As the society progresses, the teachers must be forward thinking and receptive to changes. This allows for them to prepare the students in handling the various changes and challenges of the future. Values is something where the spotlight will be on.

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We need to prepare our students for the challenging and fast-changing future. They need to learn values that help them to succeed. We have to be updated in the global happenings in order to support them.

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Teachers need to prepare students for the future. We need to alert them to the basic skills much needed in life.

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Teachers need to keep up with the current trends so that we can cater to our students.

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Students need to be well-prepared to face the challenges of the future. In school, we can prepare students to be resilient.

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We need to prepare our students to be prepared for the competitive market, building on their potential and capabilities.  They need to be resilient.  As educators, we need to help them digitalise, innovate and scale up globally.

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An educator's role is fluid and even more impactful now. A human touch is needed in inculcating values and resilience. Technology is important in preparing the students for the future but being a decent human being

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Collaborative learning is used in the current real world - be it in school or even when Eliasians go to work. Collaborative learning, and in general, collaborating with other people is unavoidable

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As educators, I believe that we have to prepare the students for the future. As such, we have to
impart in them the necessary skills for a globalised world.

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As educators we need to teach values to the students. One of the value that it important to impart to our students is resilience.

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As educators, there is a need for us to prepare the students for the future well. The values of resilience and empathy is crucial and the ability of our students to collaborate with others is important in meeting and overcoming the challenges of the future.

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Educators should be much more than credentials, experience and intelligence. She should show kindness to students, colleagues, parents and those around her/him. My favourite saying is “kindness makes the world go around”. It truly changes the environment in the classroom and school. Being a kind teacher helps students feel welcomed, cared for and loved.

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Values Education IS and will ALWAYs be important to prepare our students for the future. Subject Content changes over the years. We see the emphasis changes, but Values like resilience, care for self, others and also the environment, drive and determination, courage to explore new territories and stay loyal and rooted to Singapore.

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As educators, we need to prepare the students for the future. In order to do so, we have to keep ourselves updated with the latest trends so that we will be ready to impart the necessary skills to the students.

Students will have to be taught to be resilient and the importance of collaboration with others to achieve the results they want.

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Being a student of the world not only applies to the students but also for educators like us. We have to constantly keep up with the mindset and the culture of our ever-growing and ever-changing local and global education system.

We need to plant seeds of resilience, seeds of wisdom, seeds of skills that we can work towards cultivating in our students at EPPS to bring to the global stage.

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As educators I think it's important for us to remember that change is the only constant. Only then will we realize the need to continually upgrade and change the way we teach to prepare our students for the future landscape. We need to provide ample opportunities for Eliasians to air their voices and ask critical questions. Values and character development are also key things we need to focus on to ensure our students have what it takes to take risks, to fall and pick themselves up and to reach for their goals measured by their own definitions of success

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Imparting the values of resilience and adaptability to our students will enable them to prepare for the future.

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What it means for us as educators? What do we need to do in EPPS?

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What it means for us as educators? What do we need to do in EPPS?

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In Budget 2017, we see the increase in water tariff. This will affect the daily lives of our Eliasians. As educators, we are in position to teach them to take care of our environment and the limited resources that we have.
There is also the emphasis of going global for both small businesses and tertiary students. As such, we have the responsibility to teach our students how to operate in a global context. Teaching them soft skills - such as communication and working in groups - will enable our students to navigate successfully on a global stage. At the same time, they should be imbued with values such as tolerance, compassion and empathy to combat the racism and prejudice that they may encounter on a global scale.

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We must continue to develop confidence, adaptability and resilience in our students.  We have to give students ownership of learning and themselves and create the opportunities for them to seek improvement and venture to unfamiliar environment.

We have to provide our students the platforms to demonstrate and strengthen their sense of rootedness to Singapore, playing their part to build a caring and loving community.

We have to continually upgrading ourselves so that we can equip our students the skills for the workplace of the future economy.

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After reading the article, the two  words that came into my mind was sustainability and prudence.
As a small country, We have limited resources, hence it is important that we exercise prudence in utilising resources.

As educators, we need to help students understand that the resources we have now do not come by easily and we should not take it for granted. We need to learn to appreciate the things that we have and when face with a challenge, we need to study it and come together to think of ways to solve it instead of just complaining
In order to help students see all these we ourselves must first believe in it and walk the talk, sending a consistent message to the students.

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As educators, we need to keep abreast with the current trends. Technology is consistently changing. We are preparing our students for jobs which may not exist right now.

We also need to inculcate values in our teaching. Teach our students humility and resilience so that they can survive whatever that comes their way in the future.

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As educators we need to prepare our students to navigate change, transition, uncertainty and variability. They need to be adaptable and resilience to better embrace the opportunities of the future. Students have to be proactive and the  21st Century Competencies skills like critical thinking will help foster problem solving and decision-making skills which is essential for the globalised world. Students have to use their knowledge. tap on their personal strengths and interest to contribute in their own ways in society.

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I feel that educators play the key role. We must be willing to change their way of teaching. We usually teach how we were taught. So, now, we need to change that. Be ever willing to change, learn from others including the students and admit our shortcoming, then take off from there. If we set these examples and students see it, they emulate it.
Students need to be reminded that failure is just a 100 opportunity to do something wrong.

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The biggest challenges that we face are ahead of us, as Educators preparing ourselves to prepare our young. The Education landscape has always been a changing one from the word get go. The saying 'The only constant is change" applies to us! As educators we need to help pupils overcome the fear of failure, of trying, of asking for help etc. Working and collaborating as a team is so important. We need to impart values such as empathy and compassion and always use "teachable moments". Our pupils will have to think of themselves as more than Singapore citizens, rather as global citizens.

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As educators, we teach our students to be resilience and flexible when it comes to problem solving.

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As we take instructions from HQ, we have limited movement to our activities in the classroom. We are accountable to the syllabus and other MOE expectations. However, we can modify a little when we interact with pupils. Values are our primary filters through which we act. So that must be emphasised. And we must allow more room for the pupils to think. They must be compelled to be independent learner. Asking more questions, giving them more air time and consistently allowing them to do the thinking will be beneficial.

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In the 2017 Budget, 3 trends stand out for me. The plans to help both individual and companies to venture overseas, the promotion of digital solutions for the companies and lastly, the efforts to care for our environment and society.

Cascading down to education, I see it as our responsibilities as educators to prepare our students for such trends. It can be done so by firstly changing the mindsets of the educators and students and highlighting the future trends to them. Secondly, we need to make a conscious effort to plan programmes that align to the 21cc and NE messages.

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The ever changing landscape serves as a good reminder to us, educators, to reflect on the key skills our students need for the future.

Critical skills such as sense of discernment of what is right and wrong can be nurture through their years in EPPS. Resilience, integrity and adaptability are also some key values that will help prepare our Eliasians for the future.

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Educators used to be the ones in the classroom imparting knowledge to students. However, with the advanced technology nowadays, students are very knowledgeable too.

Therefore as educators, we have to change the way we teach and when planning lessons, bear in mind the objective of the lesson and how students learn.

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Students need to have/learn life-long skills and qualities like having confidence, resilient mindset and attitude. They must learn that failing and trying again is part of life.

They must have the courage to take risks and be thinkers and not merely following the crowd.

We can constantly share with students articles of world issues from various news sources to raise global awareness.

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2017 Budget focus on addressing some of the issues Spore is facing or might face in the future. As educators, it is our responsibility to allow our students not to see these issues as problems but as opportunities instead.

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Develop adaptability and resilience in the students to adapt to changes in the environment
Equipped them with IT skills and teach them to be responsible users of technology
Create awareness of global issues and teach them to be responsible to our environment
Sense of rootedness to Singapore and contributes to building a caring and inclusive society